“Why we should protect the high seas from all extraction … forever”
“…Save taxpayer money + prevent …declines in endangered, threatened & protected species, as well as immense damage to the seabed and open-water habitats.”
#DefendTheDeep 🌊🦑
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
“…Save taxpayer money + prevent …declines in endangered, threatened & protected species, as well as immense damage to the seabed and open-water habitats.”
#DefendTheDeep 🌊🦑
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Why we should protect the high seas from all extraction, forever
Exploitation of the high seas risks doing irreversible damage to biodiversity, climate stability and ocean equity. A consensus must be built now to save them.
www.nature.com
June 13, 2025 at 7:00 PM
As deep-sea mining race ramps up, mission will assess whether ecosystems recover afterward | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪
As deep-sea mining race ramps up, mission will assess whether ecosystems recover afterward
A new series of research cruises will study rare abyssal species in areas slated for mining
www.science.org
January 9, 2026 at 8:36 PM
These may look like sci-fi stills, but they’re real creatures from the deep ocean.
This incredible, little-explored world faces big threats like #bottomtrawling and deep-sea mining. We must fight to #DefendTheDeep.
Credit: NOAA
This incredible, little-explored world faces big threats like #bottomtrawling and deep-sea mining. We must fight to #DefendTheDeep.
Credit: NOAA
November 18, 2024 at 11:02 AM
These may look like sci-fi stills, but they’re real creatures from the deep ocean.
This incredible, little-explored world faces big threats like #bottomtrawling and deep-sea mining. We must fight to #DefendTheDeep.
Credit: NOAA
This incredible, little-explored world faces big threats like #bottomtrawling and deep-sea mining. We must fight to #DefendTheDeep.
Credit: NOAA
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This is a desperate, dangerous act by deep sea miners - an insult to multilateralism
Governments must react by establishing a moratorium and reinforcing that control of the international seabed rests in the hands of all states, together, for the benefit of humankind
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/c...
Governments must react by establishing a moratorium and reinforcing that control of the international seabed rests in the hands of all states, together, for the benefit of humankind
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/c...
March 28, 2025 at 4:04 PM
If he does not rot in hell - he is making sure everyone else will
Nature hater Trump Is Racing to Launch the Deep-Sea Mining Industry, Despite Huge Risks and Broad Opposition
This would destroy deep-sea habitats and the ecosystems they support
www.nrdc.org/bio/rebecca-...
Nature hater Trump Is Racing to Launch the Deep-Sea Mining Industry, Despite Huge Risks and Broad Opposition
This would destroy deep-sea habitats and the ecosystems they support
www.nrdc.org/bio/rebecca-...
The Trump Administration Is Racing to Launch the Deep-Sea Mining Industry, Despite Huge Risks and Broad Opposition
This would destroy deep-sea habitats and the ecosystems they support.
www.nrdc.org
March 5, 2026 at 1:15 AM
In celebration of World Octopus Day, we wanted to revisit one of our favorite cephalopod sightings, the glass octopus — Vitreledonella richardi filmed during a month-long #PhoenixIslandsCoral expedition in 2021.
October 9, 2025 at 9:15 AM
November 16, 2024 at 11:41 PM
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This is a desperate, dangerous act by deep sea miners - an insult to multilateralism
Governments must react by establishing a moratorium and reinforcing that control of the international seabed rests in the hands of all states, together, for the benefit of humankind
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/c...
Governments must react by establishing a moratorium and reinforcing that control of the international seabed rests in the hands of all states, together, for the benefit of humankind
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/c...
Mining Company Seeks Trump Support to Shortcut Access to Seabed Metals (Gift Article)
Mining companies and the Trump administration want the metals to boost manufacturing. Environmentalists and some countries worry industrial mining would harm oceans.
www.nytimes.com
March 28, 2025 at 3:48 PM
🚨#BreakingNews 🇵🇹 Portugal’s parliament adopts a ban on deep seabed mining till 2050!!! 🎉🎊🍾
#defendthedeep #keepitintheseabed
#firstblueskypost 😅
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January 31, 2025 at 1:31 PM
🚨#BreakingNews 🇵🇹 Portugal’s parliament adopts a ban on deep seabed mining till 2050!!! 🎉🎊🍾
#defendthedeep #keepitintheseabed
#firstblueskypost 😅
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BREAKING🚨: Luxembourg becomes the 33rd country calling for a moratorium on #DeepSeaMining.
With science, markets, and public opinion against it, the message is clear: DSM is unwanted, unnecessary, and unacceptable.
#DefendTheDeep #StopTheMachines
www.chd.lu/fr/question/...
With science, markets, and public opinion against it, the message is clear: DSM is unwanted, unnecessary, and unacceptable.
#DefendTheDeep #StopTheMachines
www.chd.lu/fr/question/...
May 15, 2025 at 1:28 PM
BREAKING🚨: Luxembourg becomes the 33rd country calling for a moratorium on #DeepSeaMining.
With science, markets, and public opinion against it, the message is clear: DSM is unwanted, unnecessary, and unacceptable.
#DefendTheDeep #StopTheMachines
www.chd.lu/fr/question/...
With science, markets, and public opinion against it, the message is clear: DSM is unwanted, unnecessary, and unacceptable.
#DefendTheDeep #StopTheMachines
www.chd.lu/fr/question/...
“Solving one problem within the same extractive & colonial paradigm that created the problem in the first place is bound to fail.” #Sufficiency #Degrowth #PrecautionaryPrinciple
Halting Deep-Sea Mining Can Reshape Resource Management
www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/halting-deep...
Halting Deep-Sea Mining Can Reshape Resource Management
www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/halting-deep...
Halting Deep-Sea Mining Can Reshape Resource Management
The rush to mine the deep seabed for resources needed for green technologies could have profound ecological consequences. This won't be reversed unless human society fundamentally changes its growth-a...
www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu
January 6, 2025 at 11:51 AM
WHOI talk tonight with @deepseadawn.bsky.social
TONIGHT at 7:30pm (ET) — explore the deepest, darkest mysteries on Earth at Ocean Encounters!
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April 8, 2026 at 2:56 PM
This is just a reckless and pointless decision! We need to #DefendTheDeep!
April 1, 2025 at 10:38 AM
This is just a reckless and pointless decision! We need to #DefendTheDeep!
Nice. Very nice!
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In a rare move, New Caledonia put a 50-year moratorium on deep-sea mining across its entire maritime zone.
New Caledonia bans 'dangerous' seabed mining for half a century
New Caledonia this week imposed a 50-year ban on deep-sea mining across its entire maritime zone – a rare and sweeping move that places the French Pacific territory among the most restrictive in the…
www.rfi.fr
May 10, 2025 at 2:12 AM
‘Pristine Environments Protect Us’
Check out my latest column on deep sea mining & the need to #DefendTheDeep in the latest issue of @oceanographicmag.bsky.social
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January 8, 2025 at 2:57 PM
‘Pristine Environments Protect Us’
Check out my latest column on deep sea mining & the need to #DefendTheDeep in the latest issue of @oceanographicmag.bsky.social
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November 13, 2024 at 5:37 AM
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China and Trump on verge of destroying vast swathes of the last untouched place on Earth
The deep sea ocean
Ocean life will be obliterated in the deep sea and vast plumes will smother ocean life at top of the ocean
Will also destroy huge carbon sink fuel GW news.mongabay.com/custom-story...
The deep sea ocean
Ocean life will be obliterated in the deep sea and vast plumes will smother ocean life at top of the ocean
Will also destroy huge carbon sink fuel GW news.mongabay.com/custom-story...
March 27, 2026 at 12:50 PM
It’s official! 🇵🇹 Portugal has formally adopted a 25-year legally binding moratorium on #DeepSeaMining ! A landmark decision that legally protects Portuguese waters from irreversible damage! 🪼
Let's keep the momentum going to the next #ISA meetings, in July!
#DefendTheDeep #KeepItInTheSeabed
Let's keep the momentum going to the next #ISA meetings, in July!
#DefendTheDeep #KeepItInTheSeabed
March 31, 2025 at 2:06 PM
It’s official! 🇵🇹 Portugal has formally adopted a 25-year legally binding moratorium on #DeepSeaMining ! A landmark decision that legally protects Portuguese waters from irreversible damage! 🪼
Let's keep the momentum going to the next #ISA meetings, in July!
#DefendTheDeep #KeepItInTheSeabed
Let's keep the momentum going to the next #ISA meetings, in July!
#DefendTheDeep #KeepItInTheSeabed
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February 2, 2026 at 6:00 AM
The Pacific Viperfish (Chauliodus Macouni)
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Upcoming 📣
Starting 9 March, the International Seabed Authority will bring countries together to continue developing rules, regulations and procedures to govern mining of minerals in the deep seabed
What to expect ➡️ enb.iisd.org/internationa...
#deepseamining #ocean
Starting 9 March, the International Seabed Authority will bring countries together to continue developing rules, regulations and procedures to govern mining of minerals in the deep seabed
What to expect ➡️ enb.iisd.org/internationa...
#deepseamining #ocean
1st Part of the 31st Annual Session of the International Seabed Authority (ISA)
The International Seabed Authority will bring countries together to continue developing rules, regulations and procedures to govern mining of minerals in the deep seabed beyond areas of national juris...
enb.iisd.org
March 9, 2026 at 8:10 PM
Today, the historic #HighSeasTreaty enters into force.
The majority of the high seas is deep sea.
As the COP process begins, the deep and the threats it faces must be at the center of implementation.
#BBNJ #DefendTheDeep
The majority of the high seas is deep sea.
As the COP process begins, the deep and the threats it faces must be at the center of implementation.
#BBNJ #DefendTheDeep
January 17, 2026 at 1:46 PM
Today, the historic #HighSeasTreaty enters into force.
The majority of the high seas is deep sea.
As the COP process begins, the deep and the threats it faces must be at the center of implementation.
#BBNJ #DefendTheDeep
The majority of the high seas is deep sea.
As the COP process begins, the deep and the threats it faces must be at the center of implementation.
#BBNJ #DefendTheDeep
May 6, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Yet another valuable, fascinating and beautifully illustrated story from @biographic.bsky.social
#DefendTheDeep
#DefendTheDeep
Scientists long assumed that inactive vents, without the mineral-rich plumes that make active vents so mesmerizing, didn’t host unique lifeforms.
“It turns out that we just weren’t looking very closely,” says marine biologist Jason Sylvan.
www.biographic.com/life-finds-a...
“It turns out that we just weren’t looking very closely,” says marine biologist Jason Sylvan.
www.biographic.com/life-finds-a...
Life Finds a Way, Even on Inactive Hydrothermal Vents - bioGraphic
In the darkness of the deep sea, animals flourish on hydrothermal vents that have gone cold.
www.biographic.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Yet another valuable, fascinating and beautifully illustrated story from @biographic.bsky.social
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